So why did I assemble all these incredibly different items in one place? Am I practicing to be the person who arranges all the Drawing I still life sets at MCAD? (Yeahâ€¦ you art students out there know what I’m talking aboutâ€¦)

Rhetorical question. The answer’s no.

What would you say if I told you that Ethan and I pulled everything you see here out of a single dumpster this afternoon?

You’d probably say something like, “Holy crap! That must be one magical dumpster!” Yes. Yes, it was. It was the dumpster outside the CSU theater building. They’ve been moving to a new building, see, and Sean Cummings, award-winning actor (what awards? I don’t know. Surely he’s won awards? If he hasn’t, he should have) and all-around swell guy, called me up to alert me to the situation. Here’s the short list of what we got:

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Actually, if CSU is anything like CSF then whereas they’d like to keep all of this fun stuff for all sort of good WACKINESS! They simply ran out of room to store more WACKINESS!

So…there. Oh, and shouldn’t t be the theatre department? Not the theater department? I would also accept “the dumpster outside the CSU theater”, but that would be rather inexplicative as CSU may have multiple theaters.

@Greg: We must hang out some time. We’re shooting a 16 Heads pickup with headless bodies on Monday, wanna come?

Also, yes, we left the stilts. What happened was this: I grabbed onto the base of one of them and I got a flash of the future. It was kinda like The Dead Zone, except I wasn’t Christopher Walken and all I saw was myself, doubled over and screaming in agony with one of my knees bent the wrong way. So yes, we left the stilts.

@Rosalie: The makeup stuff was all still in its original packaging, sealed inside a clean plastic tub. If you ever wind up with that particular makeup on your face, you should feel nothing but gratitude! So far I’ve directed two films where I regularly instructed an actor to “get into makeup” by going out and rolling around in the dirt (it was Vvinni, so he did it).

Having existed in the pseudo-professional theatRE world for six years, I can tell you that all major authorities spell the concept or idea “theatre” and the building a “theater.” Just ask IATSE or the AEA. If you spell it (or even intone it) “theater,” they will come to your house and whip you.

But my theatre prof. (and head of the department) says, “Fuck it, man. Spell it however you want and it’ll be right!”